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Author Gribble, Jennifer

Title Dickens and the Bible 'What Providence Meant'
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (228 p.)
Series The Nineteenth Century Ser
The Nineteenth Century Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Texts and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Contexts -- I 'Progressive Revelation': The Bible in Victorian England -- II 'What Is the True Religion?' -- III Providential Meaning: An Evolving Story -- (a) 'The grand narrative' -- (b) Nineteenth-century providential thinking -- (c) Reading the Book of Nature -- IV The Providential Novel: Generic Conventions and Concerns -- (a) Plotting -- (b) Genre -- (c) Temporality -- (d) Realism
(E) 'Omniscience' -- V 'The Self in Moral Space' 127 -- Notes -- Chapter 2: In the Beginning: From Pickwick to Scrooge -- I The Moment of Creation and the Fall into Knowledge -- II Towards the 'Carol Philosophy' -- III A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas -- IV The Incarnation, Temporality, and the Doctrine of Anamnesis -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Dombey and Son : 'What the Waves Were Always Saying' -- I Biblical Intertextuality -- II Eschatology and the Coming of the Kingdom -- III God and Nature -- IV Towards Apocalypse -- V Beatitudes -- Notes
Chapter 4: Bleak House : Expecting a Judgement -- I 'Responsible Consciousness' -- II Original Sin: The Chancery Metaphor -- III The parousia Household in Victorian Domestic Space -- IV 'The Letter and the Answer' -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Little Dorrit and the Coming of the Kingdom -- I Mrs Clennam's Bible -- II Degrees of Freedom: 'the Prison of This Lower World' -- III The Gospel of Mammonism -- IV The Child of the Marshalsea -- V 'What Nature Is' -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Last Things: Redemption, Resurrection, and the Life Everlasting -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000289664
1000289664